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By: garvan https://seeingredaz.wordpress.com/2011/08/30/dennis-burke-az-us-attorney-forced-to-resign-amid-scandal-cover-up/#comment-53971
Thu, 01 Sep 2011 00:44:44 +0000http://seeingredaz.wordpress.com/?p=22549#comment-53971Right on, Marc! Folks on our side of the political discussion tend to be knee-jerk prohibitionists. They’re probably unaware that organized crime in our country began with Prohibition.

We hear the old mantra that if drugs are legalized, then pushers will start hanging out around school playgrounds and other places where they can hook our kids.

Well, pushers of these drugs are already doing exactly that, precisely because there is so much money to be made off drugs which are expensive because they are illegal.

But note that there are no “pushers” of legal drugs, such as alcohol or tobacco, hanging around playgrounds. Why? Because these drugs are inherently inexpensive.

The day marijuana, cocaine, meth and heroin are legalized is the day the drug cartels — and the costly DEA bureaucracy — go out of business.

It’s also the day our jails will no longer be crowded with growers, users and sellers of marijuana.

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By: Seeing Red AZ https://seeingredaz.wordpress.com/2011/08/30/dennis-burke-az-us-attorney-forced-to-resign-amid-scandal-cover-up/#comment-53967
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By: Marc J. Victor https://seeingredaz.wordpress.com/2011/08/30/dennis-burke-az-us-attorney-forced-to-resign-amid-scandal-cover-up/#comment-53960
Wed, 31 Aug 2011 18:55:32 +0000http://seeingredaz.wordpress.com/?p=22549#comment-53960A great law professor of mine once said, “If they get you asking the wrong question, it doesn’t matter what the answer is.” The wrong question here is, “How should the federal government best observe, track and control the flow of guns?” The right question is, “What types of things can be done to reduce the violence in our society?” Guns do not kill or harm people. Bad people sometimes use guns to injury or kill people. Focusing on what causes people to hurt and kill others is what we should be focused on.

The idiotic drug war is probably the single biggest cause of violence in our society. The prohibition on certain drugs, just like the similarly failed prohibition on alcohol, creates a black market of trade which relies on violence to enforce contracts and to protect or transport goods. Say what you want about all the bad things that result from the ingestion of alcohol, at least the Miller guy and the Budweiser guy don’t shoot it up in the streets when they disagree. Peace emanates from a respect for others which includes tolerating the notion that adults are in charge of themselves and have a right to put into their bodies whatever they want without anybody’s permission or approval.

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By: Frankly Speaking https://seeingredaz.wordpress.com/2011/08/30/dennis-burke-az-us-attorney-forced-to-resign-amid-scandal-cover-up/#comment-53952
Wed, 31 Aug 2011 15:54:57 +0000http://seeingredaz.wordpress.com/?p=22549#comment-53952Dennis Burke’s career is cooked, which is excellent news given that he was attempting (with her mentoring) to follow the path of Janet Napolitano. He was the Dems hope for higher office. Maybe he can now find a job at Lerner and Rowe, those advertising “way to go” lawyers?
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By: theplanetprisoner https://seeingredaz.wordpress.com/2011/08/30/dennis-burke-az-us-attorney-forced-to-resign-amid-scandal-cover-up/#comment-53937
Wed, 31 Aug 2011 05:28:47 +0000http://seeingredaz.wordpress.com/?p=22549#comment-53937Great story…..When are WE THE PEOPLE going to make our officials accountable for the atrocities committed regularly? We have the absence of documented evidence to the 9/11 Commission by Bob Graham and Porter Goss to complacency of the banksters in the housing bubble to other articles we read in our local papers. Just how much are we going to take before we start prosecuting these “untouchables” for either treason or aiding and abeding enemy. Another example of blind-siding America is the media’s ignorance of RON PAUL’s documented success in his run for Presidency. As long as the Sheeple pay more attention to the strip clubs / football games / TV sitcoms / and the nightly snewz, we should not expect anymore than the police state, the poisons in our food / vaccines, the govt. corruption, and biased media that we are getting.WAKE SOME PEOPLE UP!
RON PAUL 2012http://theplanetprisoner.wordpress.com
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By: Orion https://seeingredaz.wordpress.com/2011/08/30/dennis-burke-az-us-attorney-forced-to-resign-amid-scandal-cover-up/#comment-53932
Wed, 31 Aug 2011 01:32:37 +0000http://seeingredaz.wordpress.com/?p=22549#comment-53932FOX News reports that when Burke was testifying before the Congressional Committee, he became physically ill and couldn’t complete his testimony. What a guy! He must have seen the future in his puke.

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By: garvan https://seeingredaz.wordpress.com/2011/08/30/dennis-burke-az-us-attorney-forced-to-resign-amid-scandal-cover-up/#comment-53929
Wed, 31 Aug 2011 00:27:19 +0000http://seeingredaz.wordpress.com/?p=22549#comment-53929And today the head of the ATF was just given the heave-ho; not out of government, but into a new “job”.